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3 billion people cannot afford a healthy diet https://ift.tt/3xA2ee3 by William A. Masters , Tufts University and Anna Herforth , Tufts University The COVID-19 pandemic has caused price spikes for corn, milk, beans and other commodities, but even before the pandemic about 3 billion people could not afford even the cheapest options for a healthy diet. Recent analysis of global food price data reveals that as of 2017, the latest available year , around 40% of the world's population was already forced to consume poor-quality diets by a combination of high food prices and low incomes. When healthy items are unaffordable, it is impossible for people to avoid malnutrition and diet-related diseases like anemia or diabetes . The remaining 60% of the world's 7.9 billion people could afford the ingredients for healthy meals. That, of course, does not mean they always eat a healthy diet. Cooking time and difficulty , as well as the advertising and marketing of other foods, ca...

St. Louis police shot a sleeping 63-year-old man 9 times and killed him in no-knock raid, lawsuit alleges https://ift.tt/2UCjHE2 INSIDER St. Louis police shot a sleeping 63-year-old man 9 times and killed him in no-knock raid, lawsuit alleges Michelle Mark July 8, 2021, 2:48 PM · 3 min read In this March 3, 2011 photo, empty St. Louis Police department squad cars fill the parking lot at Central division during a shift change in St. Louis. Associated Press/Tom Gannam The family of a man fatally shot by police has sued the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department. The lawsuit alleges officers burst into Don Clark Sr.'s home and opened fire in an unlawful no-knock raid. Police previously said the 2017 shooting was justified. Visit Insider's homepage for more stories . The family of a 63-year-old man fatally shot by St. Louis police in 2017 has sued the department, alleging that officers unlawfully obtained a "no knock" se...

  The evidence is overwhelming that the insurrection on January 6th was planned well in advance. But the architects have not been arrested. We must demand it. The masterminds of the attack on our republic cannot go unpunished: Others argued instead that a guillotine would showcase better symbolism, but lamented over the likely difficulties in transporting such a large blade. The comments are raising serious questions about the intelligence failures of law enforcement in the lead up to the failed insurrection. Although TheDonald.Win is no longer online, cached versions of the comments were collected in a 145-page report by the nonpartisan research group Advance Democracy. Daniel J. Jones, a former FBI analyst and former Senate investigator, told the Post that the report shows just how central of a role the now-defunct forum played in the attack on Jan. 6. “The website, TheDonald, played a far more central role in the January 6th Capitol insurrection than was previously known,” Jones...

  The GOP is hopping mad that major corporations are refusing to go along with their voter suppression laws in Georgia. How dare they criticize their hateful agenda. Coca Cola is one of those companies. Top Republicans are incensed. We should pour fuel on the fire and support MLB (which pulled the allstar game from Atlanta) and Coca Cola. So drink up : A group of eight Republican state legislators sent a letter to the president of the Georgia Beverage Association over the weekend asking to have Coca-Cola products removed from their offices after the company's CEO criticized the state's controversial new voting law. "Given Coke's choice to cave to the pressure to an out-of-control cancel culture, we respectfully request all Coca-Cola Company products be removed from our office suite immediately," the group said in a letter that was obtained by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The beverage giant, which is headquartered in Atlanta and employs about 4,000 Georgians, ...

  We must start to demand that the Democrats pass legislation that would breakup the tyrannical monopoly which is Amazon : The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) found that Amazon illegally fired two of its most prominent critics last year after they spoke out against the company's management of warehouse workers and impact on climate change, the New York Times reports.

  There is no bottom to Donald Trump. He knows nothing but fraud and deception. How someone like this could have become president is truly shocking. It says everything about the two-party system :   In what seemed to be an effort to bolster political contributions in the heat of the 2020 election against now President Joe Biden, the Trump 2020 campaign reportedly duped supporters into making recurring donations without their explicit or known consent. An investigation of Federal Election Commission records done by the New York Times found that the Trump campaign, in the last two months of 2020, was forced to give hundreds of thousands of refunds in the amount of about $64 million. In total the campaign refunded $122 million, the newspaper said. Many of these accidental repeat donors believed they were signing up to give a one-time contribution, the New York Times reported. Some of the victims of this scheme, like 63-year-old Stacy Blatt, were cancer patients who found themselv...